local time (was: something about Celeste)
Eric Ulevik
eau at fast.fujitsu.com.au
Fri Dec 3 01:20:30 UTC 1999
From: Lex Spoon <lex at cc.gatech.edu>
> *Sob* Actually, I completely forgot about leap seconds. Drats. I
> don't suppose there is a time zone that ignores leap seconds? So that
> it would actually be 86400 times the number of days, plus the number of
> elapsed seconds today?
All time zones use leap seconds except Saudi Arabia, which uses solar time.
Solar time is time based on the sun. I'm not sure what they do about
daylight saving. I suspect their second is not fixed, but elongates and
shrinks with the seasons.
Regards,
Eric Ulevik
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